[linux-help] Can't mount cdrom

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

I installed RH7.2 on a rather minimal system (P133, 32MB memory, 1.2GBdisk) 
and the install went pretty well and the cdrom worked perfectly during the 
install. but when I booted up, I couldn't mount the cdrom.  

[root@bertha]# mount  /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc and /hdc is not listed in /proc/partitions.  
/etc/fstab looks normal.

[root@bertha]# cat  /etc/fstab
....(other stuff) ....
/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom        iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

[bruce@bertha]$ ls /dev/cdrom -l
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Jan 10 13:26 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

hdc not being listed in /proc/partitions may be the root of my problem, but 
can it be fixed?

A reinstall of RH7.2 came out the same.

iso9660 is listed in /etc/filesystems.

I can't see anything in man mount that might pertain.

any help appreciated.
bruce
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